About
| Alan Edwards, Chairman and CEO |
| Dr Christian Fellowes BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCP(UK) AICSM, Co-Founder Dr Christian Fellowes graduated from Imperial College with distinction in medicine and is presently training in ophthalmic surgery in London. He is the co-inventor of Tournistrip with Mr Ryan Kerstein MBBS, BSC (Hons), aICSM. Christian has a successful track record in marketing (at university). In addition to his healthcare background, he is presently heading a team that is writing a textbook for medical students and junior doctors and provides consulting and audit services the NHS. |
| Mr Ryan Kerstein BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCS AICSM, Co-Founder Ryan is a graduate of Imperial College Medical school and presently is a Specialist Trainee in Head and Neck Surgery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he is co-inventor of Tournistrip with Dr Christian Fellowes BSc (Hons) MBBS aICSM. Christian and Ryan have successfully collaborated on a number of healthcare related business ventures over the last 5 years. The invention of Tournistrip comes from realising the limitations in their own clinical experiences and from this they developed a simple fit-for purpose device that both patients and colleague would benefit from. |
| Govind Pindora BSc PhD MBA, Imperial Innovations Imperial Innovations combines the activities of technology transfer, company incubation and investment. Our goal is to bring valuable ideas to market either by building businesses or licensing to industry. Imperial College London ranked sixth best University in the world (THES University rankings 2008) is our main partner and major source of ideas. We also provide a number of external research intensive organisations including both public and private sector ownership with our commercialisation services. We are highly experienced in every stage of the route to commercialisation. Prior to Innovations, Govind spent 6 years with Novellus Systems Inc. (a $1.6 billion revenue semiconductor equipment manufacturer based in Silicon Valley) in various positions. The last position being the European Director of Technology responsible for a large technology team based in France, Germany, Italy & UK. In his early career Govind spent 13 years as a scientist conducting basic materials science research at Cambridge University and in Japan. Govind has a BSc in Chemical Physics, PhD in Physics and an MBA. |